Developers who attempted to remove a planning condition compelling them to contribute more than £32,000 for primary education have withdrawn their application.

Pembroke Homes and Nicola Jane Beach gained outline permission to build 16 homes on land to the rear of 68, Close Lane, Alsager, in March 2018, when Cheshire East Council did not have a five-year housing land supply.

Along with their latest application to remove the planning condition relating to section 106 funding for primary education, the applicants also wanted a condition about affordable housing changed.

The total number of affordable homes to be constructed in the approved application was to comprise 30% of the 16 houses, to be made up of 65% affordable rented housing (three homes) and 35% intermediate dwellings (two homes).

Intermediate applies to homes for sale and rest provided at a cost above social rent but below market levels.

However, the applicants had applied to deliver 30% of the dwellings to be affordable, with a split of 35% affordable rented housing (two properties) and 65% intermediate dwellings (three houses).

They wanted the primary education funding condition removed after correspondence between Cheshire East Council's education and planning department, which concluded that funding was no longer required from the development.

In February 2019, a further application was submitted in relation to the section 106 contributions to education.

It was unanimously refused by the Southern Planning Committee on the grounds it was not a sustainable development in accordance with Cheshire East's local plan, which had been adopted by then and it was on land designated as open countryside.

The application's Close Lane location was in the Haslington ward.

Alsager Town Council objected to the application on the grounds of the removal of the affordable housing element and the removal of primary education funding contribution.